sixth

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The person or thing in the sixth position.
  2. One of six equal parts of a whole.
    — On the moon, however the weight of a pound-mass (lb or lbm) is only about one sixth of a pound-force (lbf).
  3. The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.
动词 v.
  1. To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six. informal,nonstandard,rare
    — Why would anyone use sixthing when any (N − a²) divisible by 6 would also be divisible by 3? The answer is that sometimes the numerator and/or the denominator is simpler in sixthing,
形容词 adj.
  1. The ordinal form of the number six. not-comparable
    — And * God ſaw euery thing that hee had made : and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the moꝛning were the ſixth day.
    And God saw everything that he had made: and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

词形变化

sixt alternative,obsolete sixths plural sixt alternative,obsolete sixths present,singular,third-person sixthing participle,present sixthed participle,past sixthed past sixt alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Revenge of the Sixth augmented sixth augmented sixth chord Australian sixth diminished sixth French augmented sixth chord French sixth German augmented sixth chord German sixth Italian augmented sixth chord Italian sixth Japanese sixth lower sixth major sixth minor sixth upper sixth

词源

词源 1
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
词源 2
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
词源 3
From earlier sixt, from Middle English sixte, from Old English siexta, from Proto-Germanic *sehstô. By surface analysis, six + -th (ordinal suffix).
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